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Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Bhareth Kumar Raja - Sunday, June 7, 2015, 10:43 PM

It struck hard on the first instance that autonomous cars are having accidents. They are not
suppose to, autonomous cars are meant to be the safest given the developement in
software and vehicle control systems. But yes, they are safe. 11 minor accidents in six years
is a negligible number given the number of accidents that are happening by human driven
vehicles, but the intresting facts is that all the 11 accidents that happenend are because of
human errors and not from software or the control system. All these 11 accidents happened
because of 3 human errors: people didn't watch the road, Google cars are programmed to
wait at intersection while humans are not, programmed cars follow lane driving at turns but
not humans. With these facts it can be assumed that Autonomous cars are good to go with,
but the survey tells the otherway. 88% of americans are not comfortable as passengers in a
driverless cars. Though it is expected around 2020 that autonomous cars will be on sale, it
is only by 2035 it is predicted that it will have a flourished market.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Surya Sahithyan Suresh Kumar - Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 3:05 PM

Autonomous cars can be an advantage only if all the maual cars are eradicated because
with just a few percentage of autonomous cars we face few accidents. The reason for
accidnets is human errors, agreed. To view this in a different point of view, we can say this
as the imcompetence of the softwares to think like humans. To solve this problem all the
cars must be shifted in autonomous or the percentage of accidnets will increas no matter
how perfect the software of the driverless car is designed.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Venkatesh Prabu Loganathan - Thursday, July 9, 2015, 4:42 PM

Car accidents can and do occur in self-driving vehicles, but you cant just blame the
computer, Google says.
Even when our software and sensors can detect a sticky situation and take action earlier
and faster than an alert human driver, sometimes we wont be able to overcome the realities
of speed and distance; sometimes well get hit just waiting for a light to change, Chris
Urmson, the director of Googles driverless cars program, wrote. And thats important
context for communities with self-driving cars on their streets; although we wish we could
avoid all accidents, some will be unavoidable.
So whats the takeaway here? Are Googles robot Lexuses supersafe or superscary? The
answer, actually, is the same as its been all along: As far as we know, theyre really quite
safebut to render a verdict would still be premature.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Siddharth Nattanmai Balakumar - Thursday, July 9, 2015, 6:18 PM

Accidents in the autonomous car are inevitable in light of the fact that all the system running
in the car has been made by the person and it is evident that each Human commit a few
errors and everybody and everything can't be constantly great. For instance, calling through
PDAs by means of system. Some of the time we won't achieve the dialed individual rather
we achieve the other individual because of some mistake in the association or territory code
or number. Despite the fact that the cellphones and the system associations are fabricated

precisely, a few slip-ups happens. Probability of error can't be zero however we can lessen it
under one. This is one of the thing I learnt under Professor Paul Ranky.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Nagarajan Gopalakrishnan - Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 10:22 AM

According to another report by Google about its self-driving car project, a record that counts
each and every accident since it started testing its 32 vehicles on the streets in 2009. That
seems like it could be a gigantic data set, considering the countless mischances that
happen on American roadways every year. Additionally google claim that Robots are much,
vastly improved drivers than people with a proof that in those 11 minor mishaps not once
was the self-driving auto the reason for the accident. This is a bold claim by them keeping
their project alive.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Abdel Hezzini - Sunday, July 12, 2015, 2:54 PM

As of now the sensors all have the correct response time. The controls of the vehicles are
all accurate as well. I think the faults will come in from natural occurrences in form of
disturbances. Also with humans still behind the wheel it can confuse the system. More
expensive imaging systems and communication amongst all vehicles will help as well.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Abhiram Sridhara - Sunday, July 12, 2015, 8:51 PM

Nothing is exactly perfect. Things may reach near perfection but not fully perfect. Machines
are human made and so they too have bugs. Self-driving cars are actually a revolution
where the safety precautions are getting better day by day. I wish there come a day where it
reaches near perfection with all the technology and software's that we travel happily longer
distances with safety.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Nnaemeka Onunkwo - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 10:47 PM

Autonomous cars could get accident through human mistakes/errors not really from the
software used for its application. The reason is that the technology has not got to its
perfection yet, when it gets to its final perfection, you will find out that the cars may become
99.9% though for quality to take place,it should be 100% perfect because we do not tolerate
any error in technology as Prof. Ranky always say and i quote" you do not run a red light or
you will be killed" In conclusion, autonomous cars simply are not perfect yet.

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Re: Why are autonomous cars having accidents?

by Waqar Ahmad - Saturday, July 25, 2015, 4:29 PM

I think that self-driving vehicles are indeed the way of the future. 11 accidents in 6 years? I
could imagine that hundreds of accidents take place every minute in the world at least. To
take this number and put it into perspective, understood there are many less self driving
cars than human driven ones, but the numbers of accidents being so low cannot be ignored.
I feel this is the future, and with rapid advancements in technology in every industry, it is
only a matter of time before self driving cars become the norm within the automotive world
as well. Thanks for sharing!

Hydrogen vehicles to be offered next year

by Terrene Collins - Monday, July 13, 2015, 11:37 AM

Very interesting article displays how some car makers Honda, Hyundai and Toyota will offer
car buyers vehicles that run on hydrogen rather than gasoline. This is a great idea, and will
lessen the affect on the environment. The project managers, I believe, did consider TQM
and also green sustainability.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/video/in-cars-old-technologies-are-new-again/viAAcN99v?srcref=rss&ocid=winrs

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Re: Hydrogen vehicles to be offered next year

by Kiran Kumar Mareedu - Thursday, July 16, 2015, 3:51 PM

FOR decades, hydrogen has been the Dracula of automotive fuels: Just when you think a
stake has been driven through its zero-emissions heart, the technology rises from the grave.
In 2015, even with gasoline cheaper than it has been in years, hydrogen is back to haunt
those who insist that battery electric vehicles are the long-term solution for reducing fossil
fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
This time with hydrogen fuel cell costs falling significantly, and a tiny yet budding network
of public fueling stations automakers are placing their latest long-odds bet on hydrogen
cars.
Hyundai has been first in the latest wave of fuel cell models, which are actually electric cars
with one important difference: Instead of a plug-in battery that draws power from the
electrical grid, a fuel cell generates power from an electrochemical reaction between
onboard hydrogen and oxygen in the air. Clean water trickles out the tailpipe as the only
byproduct.

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Re: Hydrogen vehicles to be offered next year

by Abhiram Sridhara - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 9:47 PM

The definition of hydrogen cars can be put in simple words as a car or a vehicle that uses
hydrogen as fuel for its engine to work. Now there are two types of hydrogen cars, or you
can say that hydrogen can be used in the form of fuel in two ways. The first one is using
hydrogen as a fuel to the internal combustion engine of the car, and the second one is to
use hydrogen fuel cells for providing power to the car. Researches and experiments are still
in progress to eliminate the cons and increasing the pros. However, let us look forward to
this new technology and continue to contribute our bit towards making this planet a better
and healthier place to live.

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Re: Hydrogen vehicles to be offered next year

by Waqar Ahmad - Saturday, July 25, 2015, 4:32 PM

I surely agree with you that the Project management team did consider Green Sustainability
as a major factor within the design, and reason for implementing these cars into the
automotive market. Furthermore, Its very important to note that these cars will be a brand
new technology. As did fuel driven vehicles near 100 years ago I think that hydrogen fuel
cell vehicles will impact the environment in some way. Although healthy source of fueling,
I'm sure in thousands and millions of vehicles on the road, its interesting to see what will be
the result on our planet of such vehicles being so abundant. Thanks for sharing.